Number Theory and Cryptography, Computer and Information Security, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computational Complexity, Financial Mathematics

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Assistant Professor, May 2012 - Present

C.R.Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), Hyderabad, India

Visiting Faculty, August 2013 - Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Honorary Lecturer, January 2013 - Present

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

GraduateLecturer / Assistant, Aug 2003 - May 2012

University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, USA

Lectured, held recitations and labs, and graded various advanced graduate and

undergraduate courses including Probability, Calculus, Analysis (real & complex),

Differential Equations, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Finite Fields, Mathematical Logic,

Cryptography (classical & quantum), Error correcting codes, Mathematical Theory

Applied to Finance, and Computation, Algorithms, & Coding in Finance

Please visit http://www.math.umn.edu/~vishal/teaching/ for details.

Mentor, June 2010 - Aug 2010

Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UMN

Research Assistant, May 2007 - Aug 2007

Intelligent Storage Consortium, Digital Technology Center (DTC), UMN

ResearchVisitor, July 2006 - Aug 2006

Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

ResearchFellow, June 2006 - Aug 2006

Minnesota Center for Industrial Mathematics (MCIM), UMN

ResearchScholar, Aug 2000 - July 2003

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Ph.D. - Cryptography, GPA: 3.88/4.00, May 2012

University of Minnesota (UMN), Minneapolis, MN, USA

Advisor : Prof. Andrew Odlyzko

M.S. - Computer Science, GPA: 3.84/4.00, Aug 2007

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UMN

M.S. - Mathematics, GPA: 3.91/4.00, Aug 2007

School of Mathematics, UMN

P.G.Certificate in Statistical Methods and Applications, First Class, July 2000

Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

B.Sc. - Mathematics, with Honors, July 2000

St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, Calcutta

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Analysis-Preserving Protection of User Privacy against Information Leakage of Social-Network Likes

with F.Buccafurri, L.Fotia, and G.Lax. Information Sciences 328, Elsevier 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2015.08.046

An Anonymous Proxy Multi-signature with Accountability (Book chapter)

with R.A.Sahu, E-Business and Telecommunications, CCIS 554, Springer, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25915-4

A Secure Anonymous Proxy Signcryption Scheme

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Public-Key Encryption with Searchable Keywords based on Jacobi Symbols

with G.D.Crescenzo, IndoCrypt 2007, LNCS 4859, Springer, 2007

Anonymous Signatures Revisited

with A.Yun, ProvSec 2009, LNCS 5848, Springer, 2009

Remote Cache-timing Attacks on AES

with D.Feldman, D.F.Kune, and S.Das, CS2, HiPEAC 2014, ACM, 2014

A Secure Anonymous Proxy Multi-signature Scheme

with R.A.Sahu, Secrypt 2014, SciTePress, 2014

How to Leak a Secret and Reap the Rewards too

with S.K.Pandey, LatinCrypt 2014, LNCS 8895, Springer, 2014

Secure and Efficient Scheme for Delegation of Signing Rights

with R.A.Sahu, ICICS 2014, LNCS 8958, Springer, 2014

Practical and Secure Integrated PKE+PEKS with Keyword Privacy

with F.Buccafurri, G.Lax and R.A.Sahu. Secrypt 2015, SciTePress, 2015

Strengthening NTRU Against Message Recovery Attacks

Arithmetic 2015: Elliptic curves, diophantine geometry, and arithmetic dynamics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2015

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Attacks on Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem, June 2015 - Present

Funding agency: Defence Research & Development Organisation, Govt. of India

Post Quantum Cryptology, Oct 2014 - Present

Funding agency: Defence Research & Development Organisation, Govt. of India

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Side Channel Cryptanalysis (of block/stream ciphers) May 2012 - Present

CRRao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

Development of an Indigenous Lightweight Block Cipher May 2012 - Present

CRRao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

Design of a Lattice Based Cryptosystem May 2012 - Sep 2013

CRRao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

Software Methodologies for Lattice Based Cryptanalysis May 2012 - Sep 2013

CRRao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

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Counterparty Credit Risk in Over-The-Counter Derivatives January 2012

Minnesota Center for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (MCFAM), UMN

Pursuit Evasion Games with Multiple Pursuers June 2010 - Aug 2010

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UMN

Secure and Efficient Long Term Data Management May 2007 - May 2008

Intelligent Storage Consortium, Digital Technology Center, UMN

Long Term Key Management May 2007 - May 2008

Intelligent Storage Consortium, Digital Technology Center, UMN

Applied Remote Cache-timing Attacks against AES Sept 2006 - May 2007

Institute of Technology, UMN

Cryptographic Multi-linear Maps Jan 2005 - May 2005

Institute of Technology, UMN

Basic Lie Theory Aug 2000 - July 2003

School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay

Engel Curve Analysis of Expenditure of Employees of ISI, Calcutta,

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Refresher Course in Mathematical Sciences,

UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Invited Talk May 18-22, 2015

CRSI National Instructional Workshop on Cryptology, HPU, Shimla

Invited Talk June 5-9, 2014

CRSI National Instructional Workshop on Cryptology, MNNIT, Allahabad

Invited Talk March 10-15, 2014

Instructional Workshop on Graph Theory and its Applications to Visual Cryptography, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil

Invited Seminar January 23, 2014

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani - Goa

Invited Seminar January 01, 2014

B. V. Raju Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Invited Talk November 07, 2013

Cyber Security, ADHYAYAN 2013, AMSSOI, Hyderabad

Invited Seminar October 25, 2013

School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad

Invited Talk October 03, 2013

Faculty Development Program on Information Security and Cyber Forensics,

GITAM Institute of Technology, Vishakhapatnam

Invited Talk September 04-05, 2013

Refresher Course in Mathematical Sciences,

UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Invited Talk March 07-09, 2013

Refresher Course in Mathematical Sciences,

UGC-Academic Staff College, University of Mysore, Mysore

Invited Talk May 16, 2010

Young Researchers Meet on Mathematics and Computer Science,

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Invited Talk January 12, 2010

Workshop on Generic Ring Algorithms, Horst-Görtz Institute for IT Security,

Ruhr-University-Bochum, Germany

Invited Talk December 12, 2007

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Code Based Crypto Workshop 2015 September 2015

International workshop jointly organized by CRRao AIMSCS and SAG DRDO

Training on Elliptic Curves March 2015

for scientists of the Scientific Analysis Group (SAG, DRDO), New Delhi

Training on Block Cipher Design July 2014

for scientists of the Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi

Training on Lattice-based Cryptosystems and Cryptanalysis March 2013

for scientists of Scientific Analysis Group (SAG, DRDO), New Delhi

Training on Lattice-based Cryptosystems and Cryptanalysis January 2013

for scientists of Scientific Analysis Group (SAG, DRDO), New Delhi

Training on Block Ciphers November 2012

for scientists of National Technical & Research Organization (NTRO), New Delhi

Short course on Anonymous Identity-based Cryptosystem July-September 2012

for post-graduate research scholars at CRRao AIMSCS, Hyderabad

Student Number Theory Seminar 2004-2006

School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA

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International Workshop on Lattice-Based Cryptography December 2013

Organized by Microsoft Research, Bangalore

International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its

Use in Practice December 2013

Organized by Intel, Bangalore, India

Financial Mathematics Modelling Workshop January 2012

Minnesota Center for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, UMN (MCFAM)

CIMPA School of Number Theory in Cryptography & its Applications July 2010

Kathmandu University, Nepal

Workshop on Generic Ring Algorithms January 2010

Horst-Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Young Researchers Meet on Mathematics and Computer Science May 2010

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

IMA Workshop on Complexity, Coding, and Communications April 2007

Institute of Mathematics and it Applications, UMN, Minneapolis, USA

Computational Number Theory and Applications to Cryptography July 2006

Organized by NSF and IMA and RMMS and Fields Institute. Conducted at University of Wyoming, USA

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Irvine, CA, USA, August-September 2015

Crypto 2015: 35th International Cryptology Conference

Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 2015

Arithmetic 2015: Elliptic curves, Diophantine geometry, & arithmetic dynamics

Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, August 2015

First International Conference on Integrated Approach to Counter-Terrorism

(CTC 2015) Jaipur March 2015

IndoCrypt 2014: 15th International Conference on Cryptology in India

Delhi, December 2014

ECC 2014: 18th Workshop On Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Chennai October 2014

SeCrypt 2014: 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography

Vienna, Austria August 2014

DSCI Annual Information Security Summit

New Delhi, December 2013

IndoCrypt 2013: 14th International Conference on Cryptology in India

Mumbai December 2013

AsiaCrypt 2013: 19th Annual International Conference on Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security

Bangalore December 2013

DSCI Best Practices Meet on Cyber Security

Chennai July 2013

Conference in Number Theory

Kolkata December 2012

IndoCrypt 2012: 13th International Conference on Cryptology in India

Kolkata December 2012

3rd Worldwide Cyber Security Summit

New Delhi October 2012

Crypto 2012: 32nd International Cryptology Conference

Santa Barbara, CA, USA August 2012

Crypto 2009: 29th International Cryptology Conference

Santa Barbara, CA, USA August 2009

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Full-tuition Scholarship and Assistantship 2003 - 2012

Graduate School, University of Minnesota, USA

TIFR Alumni Association Scholarship for Career Development 2002 - 2003

School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay

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V. Ram Chandra Prasad M.Tech Project, 2014-2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Abhishek Shukla M.Tech Project, 2014-2015

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Chetan Sharma M.Tech Project, 2014-2015

Sardar Patel University of Police, Security & Criminal Justice, Jodhpur

Nitish Vyas M.Tech Project, 2014-2015

Sardar Patel University of Police, Security & Criminal Justice, Jodhpur

Aaron Maurer IMA Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2010

Carleton College, Minnesota, USA

John McCauleyIMA Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2010

Haverford College, Pennsylvania, USA

Silviya Valeva IMA Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2010

Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA

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Professor Andrew Odlyzko <[email protected]>, School of Mathematics, UMN

Professor David Frank <[email protected]>, School of Mathematics, UMN

Professor Fadil Santosa <[email protected]>, Institute of Mathematics and its

Applications, UMN

Professor Scott Adams <[email protected]>, Minnesota Center for Financial

and Actuarial Mathematics, UMN

Professor Nicholas Hopper <[email protected]>, Department of Computer